The application gives the material result its meaning

I am Roshni Darvazeri, CTO of the fictional Kezrali Industrial Ceramics. I work from Vadodara with engineering colleagues and manufacturing teams near Morbi. We develop wear ceramics for defined industrial uses, excluding medical and structural applications from this account. My interest is the point where a promising material result becomes a product commitment. The laboratory observation, the production route and the customer's operating conditions all need to belong to the same explanation. A strong result in one setting should not quietly become a claim about every other setting.

My career began in July 1999 in a refractory-products laboratory after a ceramic engineering degree. Development and applications roles taught me how different the same material question can look from the customer's process. I joined Kezrali in September 2017 and became CTO in January 2023. Today I lead sixty-two colleagues through five managers, with ₹9.2 crore annual engineering and testing expense and ₹4.8 crore approved development capital. Those are functional responsibilities within a 620-person business. Quality head Mala Norsheli reports separately to CEO Farhad Qezvani and retains her own acceptance authority.

A credible technology portfolio includes the claims we narrow and the programmes we stop. We restricted one launch to a dry mineral-handling application after an unsuccessful slurry pilot. We also funded process-origin evidence for received material, qualification of production loading and the closure of a decorative variant that no longer fitted our industrial priorities. Each decision used resources and gave up an attractive alternative. I want the technical account to retain those costs and limits. That makes it useful to management and to a board deciding what the business can responsibly promise next.

Current focus

Connecting application evidence, manufacturing qualification and development priorities without allowing a favourable result to outrun its conditions.

Conversations I welcome

A first non-executive role where a board needs to examine the technical basis of an industrial product commitment, subject to consent and preparation.